McCain went on to say that American sailors have been using nuclear-supplied energy for 50 years and concluded:

Nuclear power is safe. We ought to do it.

As one commenter noted, though, we still don’t know how to safely store the waste — even the waste from Navy subs.

Attribute it perhaps to campaign fatigue, but this incident has escaped much attention among my brethren in the MSM. However, a few bloggers have picked up on it and the Friends of the Earth put out a press release quoting FOE President Brent Blackwelder:

There have been a string of safety incidents at U.S. and international reactors, there is nowhere to store the 100,000 shipments of waste we’ve already generated, and nuclear plants are, as the FBI director has stated, ‘target rich’ environments for terrorists.

The fact that McCain so readily dismisses these very real concerns with a ‘blah, blah, blah,’ is disconcerting to say the least.

Let’s also not forget that McCain had that unfortunate, “bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran” comment some time back. Here is the video on that: